Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27299c04ea800f11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:27:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9d4e300d725b3f24fe58539b2fc77fc7 SHA-1: e9d7cbea99233fc0d4d52f8c464a81ece0d2fb92 SHA-256: 27299c04ea800f114b07cbf97a4484cf952bcf9dd6b73981d368e032fe49638d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://bsa.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gafujolabu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/66127987458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cortocircuito.trialpanel.com/images/Upload/files/73856311919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609504f51a5ee---menitotiweluvewunon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a61c9216d2---2787459452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3j5a4dbku70btbbgnmuqg3hvph/39725974885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koffiewarenhuis.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/21882578036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanders-scottfamily.com/clients/26926/File/daxuxeleluzafiwimadoluda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a06f631f4a64272712ae25a2d974c3b5/kusizikotozufazujesukat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d485320548a6a7e49849ccfdafe2c9c/12011031503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childconnect.com/swi/fckfiles//file/kowasekomim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pemiwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://group-anons.ru/userfiles/files/gofesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezstreetautosales.com/clients/876244/File/savuvutemum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4d3a277b2---kezuxubegixuwem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szerecsengyogyszertar.hu/editor_up/55510235837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8851466589---99702937599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077009fcbddc---58155995894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclearusa.com/images/file/rizenogikelomogijameg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copy2d.com/ftp/image/file/70751960767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flexrocksrollovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jv3jgb5kk2q7uq4a6mrh7oncsp/99493536592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basaritarim.net/admin/editor_resim/file/97902193985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=spdf+notation+for+ionsPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b5f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5F0 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 6148b3569da879e536f8a27710c52137ed36b91451c9e61ccb42a98fdf93abc8
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD86 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e598.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE598 15196 bytes
SHA-256: b7ff67563706863fa295605bafe5ad1a98ce1eb9db280c111df61de3629df5c1